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2010-2012 Catalog

Electives - 2010-2012 Catalog

In addition to Basic and Major Sequence coursework, all Electrical and Computer Engineering students must fulfill several other required courses and Electives including:

One (1) 3-hour Approved Free Elective

One (1) Fine Arts/Humanities Elective

One (1) Social Science Course Elective

Two (2) History Courses

Two (2) Government Courses

All elective coursework MUST be taken for a letter grade.

Approved Free Elective

The approved free elective may be satisfied by completing a lower-division or upper-division course used to fulfill personal or academic goals. EE 325L Cooperative Engineering may be used to satisfy this requirement.

Following is a PARTIAL list of courses that DO NOT satisfy this requirement:

Social and Behavioral Science Elective

Texas Legislative Requirement for Government

The Texas Education Code (Subchapter F, §51.301) requires Texas public university and community college students to complete six semester hours of coursework in government/political science, study of the US and Texas constitutions and related subjects.

At UT Austin the Federal and Texas constitutions are studied together in GOV 310L to satisfy the content requirement of §51.301; the variable-topic GOV 312L rounds out the semester-hour requirement.

Courses at institutions teaching Federal and Texas government in parallel transfer as GOV 310L & 312L. Courses at institutions teaching Federal and Texas government separately transfer with the generic evaluations "GOV 3 US" and "GOV 3 TX," to denote which course is dedicated to the Federal or Texas constitution.

All students are required to take 6 hours of American History to fulfill the legislative requirement. Please note that only three (3) hours of Texas History may be used towards the legislative requirement.

Courses that show the statement: “some topics may partially fulfill the legislative requirement in American History, these topics are listed in the course schedule” will NOT count toward US History unless it also shows the required separate statement: “partially fulfills legislative requirement in American History”. Our advice? Use the list.